East End
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- proper noun
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East End
- Sometimes it was the cooking habits of people in the East End, or what people wear on Oxford Street: tiny details that, for her, were worth the time reading this book.
- the East End of London
I was looking after some premises back in the East End of London.
- I was looking after some premises back in the East End of London.
- Cars have been banned from the Olympic grounds in London's East End.
- I weren't going to leave him and it's just how we've been brought up in the East End.
- But you know, I've been, I've been so lucky because I I grew up in the East End of London.
- First, though, he's the hardest thing to have come out of the East End since Wellard's lipstick.
- He came back to London and East End and you know, I don't think he told Ronnie about that.
- So East London, East End, father's family and Camden mother's family lived in North London.
Examples
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"For me, Spitalfields in the East End sums up what makes London such an amazing city, an exciting contemporary vibe superimposed on layers of history," says Gavin Webb, a London Blue Badge tour guide.
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Many artists are inspired by the unique atmosphere of the East End and its lively nightlife.
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I was looking after some premises back in the East End of London.
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Part of the poor Jewish groups that had settled first in Bristol and then in the East End of London.
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He was born in the East End of London.
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I always remember the elderly ladies in the East End of London come putting their arms around you and giving you a kiss and saying, "Keep 'em away, boys, keep 'em away."
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Its chief executive is Terry Smith, an outspoken former stock analyst who rose from humble roots in London's East End.
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My parents were first-generation British Jews, brought up in London's East End by their immigrant parents who had escaped from the Eastern European pogroms in the early years of the twentieth century.
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My parents met with the working-class kind of anti-Semitism in the 1930s when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marched through the Jewish areas of the East End.
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Growing up in the East End of London, he experienced the rich diversity of its cultural festivals.
Surface Forms
Morphology
east + End
The basic locational meaning — 'the eastern part' of a place — is directly derivable from combining 'east' and 'end', and such place-name formation is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner would infer it denotes an eastern district. However, the specific reference to the London district with its particular cultural and historical connotations is lexicalized and not predictable from the constituents alone, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
East End is the name for the part of London on the east side, and it comes from the words east meaning the direction and end meaning the 'edge' of the old city by the docks and markets. Because this area kept its own lively communities, shops and culture, the name now means a busy, multicultural neighbourhood with strong local character and nightlife.